Account-book



lj'imitan STATES ATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL XV. GOLDBERG AND EMANUEL M. TILLMANN, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

ACCOUNT-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,658, dated May 21, 1889.

Application filed January 18, 1889. Serial No. 296,754. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that we, SAMUEL XV. GOLDBERG and EMANUEL M. TILLMANN, citizens of the United States, residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Account- Books, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to account-books and it consists, essentially, in a book the pages of which are divided into vertical sections and spaces, each provided with a suitable caption indication that shows the special character and purpose thereof, all as herein more particularly described, illustrated in the drawings, and speciically set forth in the claims.

The accompanying drawing represents an open book embodying our invention, portions of the blottinginterleaves being broken away.

Our invention contemplates the provision of an account-book adapted to receive in condensed form the dates and other particulars when sums due to and from a person or firm are payable.

Ve denominate our invention a maturitybook.

In the drawing, A represents the pages of the book prepared for inscription; B, interleaves of blotting-paper, all bound up in book form in the well-known manner. Each page is ruled vertically to form sections or columns, as follows, commencing at the left and in consecutive order, viz:

l is a column at the extreme left side of each page, styled Folio, adapted and intended to receive inscribed numerals showing the page of a general ledger, upon which the special subject-matter is found, said numeral to be entered upon that portion of the transverse line 2 within the folio-space, which transverse lines, it will be seen from the drawing, extend equidistantly from the caption-spaces d continuously to the bottom of the page. N ext following the folio-space is a column, 3, for the reception of the date, month, and day appearing upon the face of theledger. Following said date-column is a wider section, 4, adapted and intended to have inserted therein the names of the parties from whom or to whom the respective account or promissory note is due upon the day of maturity, for which the page receiving the aforesaid entries is applied. Next in order is a column, 5, under the title City, for reception of the address of creditor or debtor, as the case may be, to whom the indebtedness applies. The column 5 is followed in consecutive order by three vertical columns of equal width, each ruled for dollars and cents, the first one, 6, being' designated for bills payable; the second, 7, for bills receivable; the third,l 8, for open accounts. These are followed by a sectional column, 9, styled 'lerm, which is intended to receive in numerals or words the time for which the respective credit was given or taken for the purchase, sale, or promissory-note, as the case may be. The remainder of the page to the extreme right composes a space or section, l0, for the reception of any remarks that may be thought necessary in reference to the various entries to the left thereof. XVe thus provide an eX- ceedingly useful and novel manner of showing at a glance on a single page, day by day, the open accounts and promissory-notes due to or by a mercantile or other business house.

It is our intention to manufacture our maturity-book with one or more pages devoted to each day of the year. Ordinarily three hundred and sixty-five pages will be suflicient; but more may be required for large establishments.

Each column and space has a caption-heading, as hereinbefore set forth, and above the upper transverse-ruled line, defining the respective caption-spaces, d, we place the word maturities.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. As a new article of manufacture, an account-book the pages of which are ruled to compose vertical sectional columns l, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and l0, said columns arranged in consecutive order as named, and in said order respectively supplied upon their upper ends within spaces a, with printed captions Folio, Datef Name, City, Bills Payable, Bills Receivable, Open Account, 'lerm, and Reniai-ks, each page being IOO IIo

supplied with parallel transverse lines 2, extending eqnidistantly from under the caption-spaces continuously to the bottom of the page for the purpose indicated, substantially as described.

2. An account-book having pages A and intermediate blotting-pages, B, said pages A having vertical sections l, 3, 4,15, 6, '7, 8, 9, and 10 arranged in successive progression from the left to the right side of said pages, i

said pages also ruled with transverse lilies 2, all in combination with special denominate titles at the top of each column,wl 1erebyeacl1 .of said columns has a special indicating-caption arranged inv consecutivev order to point 15 out the Jfunctional character and purposes of each space, as and for the purpose indicated, substantially as described.

SAMUEL W. GOLDBERG. E. M. TILLMANN. In presence of- A. STRAUss, H. M. FRIEND. 

